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Excerpt from Alla Breve: From Bach to Debussy
Differences in mentality and taste ac count for the many and contrasting types of music-lovers, and for what each of them considers to be music. For while it can be raised to the lofty level of an art, it suffers the common lot of all things handled by man kind, that it may be degraded to standards inconceivably low. The important and dis concerting fact is, that all along this gradual descent the mission of music remains identi cal: it ministers to the same wants; it springs from, and appeals to, the same instincts and emotions; it always appeases the craving for a satisfaction which is difierentiated only by degrees of refinement. This refinement, of course, is based primarily on the general culture of the individual, but more partie ularly on the capacity of hearing, or the development of the human ear.
Musical history is, in reality, nothing but an account of the evolution of hearing.
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